Wheelchair user 130lbs healthier!

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  • chubbard9
    chubbard9 Posts: 565 Member
    Your story is amazing! You look so much happier and healthier!!! Congratulations to you for all of your success! You made no excuses and just did it! So many of us make excuses because we're tired and sometimes don't have the motivation, but you are truly inspiring hun!!! We all can do what you have done!!!
  • EnglishCanadian
    EnglishCanadian Posts: 72 Member
    Simply brilliant :) So goo and congrats on the engagement :)
  • EnglishCanadian
    EnglishCanadian Posts: 72 Member
    *So GOOD - gah!!
  • candidcamster
    candidcamster Posts: 44 Member
    You look so beautiful, omigosh! <3 So inspirational reading your story!
  • vschwgrt1
    vschwgrt1 Posts: 86 Member
    OMG, what an inspiration!!!!
  • dixiewhiskey
    dixiewhiskey Posts: 3,333 Member
    I think this is probably the best success story I have ever read in the three years I have been active here. It is not every day that you read a weight loss story where the individual has physical challenges and manages to rise above that and more. Congratulations! You are inspiration to me and I think to many others as well. Thanks so much for sharing.
  • SweatforLife
    SweatforLife Posts: 4 Member
    You look great and are truly an inspiration!! Congratulations!
  • selrold
    selrold Posts: 15 Member
    You are my hero. May God bless you.
    imogen__may wrote: »
    Hey!

    I don't know what made me think today was the right day to post some photos of my progress, but here we are anyway.

    I'm a disabled woman, my impairment was really severe a few years ago and I was constantly in hospital, in ICU unable to breathe. I was in crisis, physically and mentally. And so I decided I needed to do something to take back control, or I'd die.

    So I downloaded MFP, added some awesome friends are started calorie counting. It was the first time I'd actually truly understood calories and nutrition properly and things started to click into place. I learnt how to listen to what my body needed and how foods made me feel. For the first year it was just about being under my calories, even if I ate 3 slices of cake. That's what I loved about MFP, there was nothing I couldn't eat as long as I didn't go over my calories. The slowly, as I lost weight, I started to look more carefully at exactly what I was eating, trying to make my macros and thinking specifically about what would help me manage my impairment.

    Today, I've not been in ICU for 4 years. I'm 130lbs lighter. My body and I work together to keep me as well as possible whilst still living with a fairly severe impairment. I'm also getting married! All things that seemed forever away 4 years ago.

    I have just started to focus more specifically on working out, when I am able to, doing heavily adapted work outs, rather than attempting to lose lots more weight. My goal was 9st, and I'm currently 9st 4lbs.

    I weight less that I've lost. I've shed 50% of my body weight. And happiness is off the scale!

    To be clear, I willnever be 'finished'. These aren't my 'after' photos by any stretch of the imagination! I was to change my body for the better, always.

    Photos!

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    I was wearing a UK size 26

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    Wearing a size 20/22 here, this is when I really decided I could do this and went at it properly!

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    This is the day I knew the woman I'd met would be my wife. That I had so much I wanted to live for and that if I worked hard I could *actually* live!

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    Excuse the selfies, I don't have tons of full length photos! This photos was my 32nd birthday, and I'm wearing a UK size 8 shirt!

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    I can't wait to be able to post again, with more changes to my health, wellbeing and body. You can follow me on Instagram too (@Brizzle__Kicks)

    Thanks for looking!

  • LavenderLeaves
    LavenderLeaves Posts: 195 Member
    That's AMAZING. Also, your eyebrows are on FLEEK. Damn!
  • yuuen
    yuuen Posts: 114 Member
    Inspiring! You look tons younger now too! Congrats to you and yours. :heart:
  • maggierenee88
    maggierenee88 Posts: 352 Member
    You are Beautiful! Amazing work!
  • jlmed
    jlmed Posts: 226 Member
    Wow!!! Amazing transformation! You look great!
  • Glinda1971
    Glinda1971 Posts: 2,328 Member
    Glad this made announcement status!!

    So inspiring!
  • sastruga99
    sastruga99 Posts: 5 Member
    You're both incredibly inspirational. I have a brother who became disabled a few of years ago as well. He went from being an Ironman athlete to dangerously overweight very fast from the physical change. He does do wheelchair races, but the weight is still a challenge. I will share your stories with him. TY!!
  • mmshhmsh
    mmshhmsh Posts: 6 Member
    Amaizing acheivement !!
  • JeddersJunior
    JeddersJunior Posts: 7 Member
    Wow, just wow! I actually have tears of joy for you and reading your inspiring journey. Thank you for sharing, and best wishes for your future.
  • DeclanMacLean
    DeclanMacLean Posts: 3 Member
    Well done. I'm happy eating food
  • kfdcem
    kfdcem Posts: 17 Member
    You look beautiful and you deserve every ounce of pride and happiness. Congratulations on both your fitness and your marriage!
  • Librarian_Stephanie
    Librarian_Stephanie Posts: 7 Member
    WOW! You look amazing! Congratulations on your success! :)
  • mcpostelle
    mcpostelle Posts: 418 Member
    Wow, you've made an amazing transformation! :smiley: You're gorgeous and rockin with your new found strength.
  • dixiewhiskey
    dixiewhiskey Posts: 3,333 Member
    So happy to see this as a posted announcement!! Congrats again :)
  • ShannonMpls
    ShannonMpls Posts: 1,936 Member
    Did you know that you're amazing? Because you are.
  • Pollychrome
    Pollychrome Posts: 7 Member
    You're amazing! As a disabled person(I have MS) I understand how challenging it is to be fit. You're truly an inspiration. Thanks for sharing your story! - - Holly
  • Nckr66
    Nckr66 Posts: 31 Member
    just, wow. you look incredible. thank you for sharing your amazing story, you are an amazingly inspirational woman
  • TeresaNewsome
    TeresaNewsome Posts: 9 Member
    Awesome!!
  • elliesmommfp
    elliesmommfp Posts: 12 Member
    Gorgeous <3
  • Paulette0706
    Paulette0706 Posts: 46 Member
    Congratulations....you look amazing, and you are an inspiration!
  • bradvm
    bradvm Posts: 2 Member
    Great job. I am also in a wheelchair (T6 Para). You inspire me to do better. I have lost 90 pounds so far but have another 30 to go. I have been losing for about a year now but my progress has slowed way down. I just started back using mfp and I am starting to see some progress.
  • professionalHobbyist
    professionalHobbyist Posts: 1,316 Member
    That is awesome !!!

    Yay You!!!

    Very impressive how you have just reconstructed your body there!

    I'm inspired.

    Thank you for sharing your journey in time.
  • imogen__may
    imogen__may Posts: 78 Member
    I'm so thankful for all the lovely comments, thank you all x x

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